Sinn Féin

CCM returned home to further conflict. Shortly after losing her seat in the Pact Election of June 1922, she joined the IRA Irregulars in a violent seizure of prominent public buildings, the Four Courts, in...

After moving to Ireland, CD campaigned strongly for Sinn Fein , well into her old age though not until the end of her life. At Roebuck House she was watched by a plain-clothes detective working...

The reason for her fact-finding visit in 1921 was that ES had been asked to be a speaker in a campaign to raise awareness in Britain about the Irish situation, and she felt that she...

While CCM was imprisoned the Dail was declared illegal and Sinn Féin , Cumann na mBan , and other groups were proscribed. Following her release, she remained head of the Labour ministry and joined her...

EGB 's elder sister Constance (later Countess Markievicz ) was an Irish patriot and the first woman MP in Britain (though as a member of Sinn Féin she did not take her seat). The sisters'...

CD 's younger brother, later Sir John French , had a high-profile military career. He became a Field Marshal in 1913 and commander of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe at the start of the...

ENC 's father, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, was born in about 1903 and lived until 1970.